John B Quotes

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.

Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.

Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

God created seaweed… The seaweed made the world.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

Time was made for slaves.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.

There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors.

When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder

100% renewable energy is 100% possible and can happen sooner than we think.

Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.

I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins.